The California Apartment Association this week supported a bill to help landlords stop tenants from cultivating marijuana in rental properties.
A common complaint by rental property owners, especially in Northern California, centers on the use and cultivation of marijuana in multifamily housing.
The bill, SB 643 by Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, would help address this issue by banning cultivation of medical marijuana in areas zoned residential.
The bill includes other provisions, such as:
- Establishing the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation and requiring the bureau to license and regulate dispending facilities, cultivation sites, transporters and manufacturers of medical marijuana and medical marijuana products. Also would impose $35,000 penalties for failure to comply with the law.
- Making it a misdemeanor for a physician or surgeon who recommends marijuana to a patient for a medical purpose to accept, solicit or offer any remuneration from or to a licenses dispending facility in which the physician and surgeon or his or immediately family has a financial interest.
- Prohibiting a physician or surgeon from recommending medical marijuana to a patient unless that person is the patient’s attending physician.
- Authorizing the board of supervisors of a county of the city council to impose a tax on the privilege of cultivating, dispending, producing, processing, preparing, storing, providing, donating, selling, or distributing marijuana or products containing marijuana.